My writing was not good for a long time and now it is better.  I write slower so it is very good and neat!

@gortskehy Well done Adam! Christmas is not so long ago+you have improved so much.Just shows what can be done. Slowing down=great advice 🙂

— 2ndClassR6 (@2ndClassR6) February 19, 2014

@gortskehy Brilliant writing Adam. Keep up the good work. Reading is a great way of getting ideas for writing too.

— Summer Reading (@SummerBuzz) February 19, 2014

@gortskehy Wow, fantastic improvement, ur teachers+parents must b beaming with pride, well done Adam!Make sure u enter the INTO handwriting

— Cloghans Hill NS (@ScoilAnClochain) February 19, 2014

One day, my friend Lorna and I were walking along my garden path when suddenly we fell down a MASSIVE hole. It was scary but mostly fun. A few seconds later we were sitting in the middle of lollipop trees! We got up and started looking around for a bit and it only took us like 5 seconds to notice that we were in the middle of place called ‘Candy Village’!

Lorna started to eat all the candy floss bushes and I started to eat all the jelly bean grass! Then we saw a girl coming out of a ginger-bread house. Lorna had a crazy thought that the girl might be the evil witch in Hansel and Gretel, but I managed to calm her down. The girl came over to us and let us know that her name was Lily-Anne and we told her our names. Then she asked us if we were lost and we replied that indeed we were. So she offered to help us get home. She asked us where we lived and I said a place called Killeenrevagh and sure enough that’s where she lived too. She was curious as to how we had arrived in Candy Village so I said Lorna and I were walking along my garden path and we just fell down a huge hole. Then she started to look worried. So I asked her what was wrong and she said that that’s how she had arrived here and she’d never found a way home.

Well THAT set Lorna off and she panicked so much that she nearly fainted! It took half an hour to calm her down completely. We all came up with a plan together. Our plan was to all look for our homes together. We started to look for passageways at first because that’s how we all got here in the first place. A few minutes later Lorna tripped over a lever that caused the ground to open revealing a dark tunnel. At first we were all very surprised but I really wanted to descend and see what was down there so we all slid down the tunnel and ended up in the underworld!

We got up and later on we ran into a boy and he introduced himself and said his name was ‘Thomas’ from ‘Killeenreavagh’ too! (What luck!) So Thomas joined us on our journey and we started to look for more passageways. While we were looking Lorna started telling us jokes, the first few were pretty funny but as we were going on they didn’t even make sense. After listening to a few more jokes that didn’t make sense we decided we had had enough so we told Lorna that our situation was no laughing matter. It took us a really long time to find another passageway. In fact we turned the whole UNDERWORLD upside down trying to find passageways.

We got lucky when Lily-Anne found a lamp leaning against the wall and pulled it out. It opened a big crater in the wall. None of us wanted to enter in case we would go to another world! Thomas was not afraid so he pushed all of us into the tunnel and sure enough we ended up in my back garden. We all ran home and couldn’t wait to tell our parents about the wild adventure!!!!!

Cotton is a soft fibre that grows from the seeds of the cotton plant. The fibre is long and thin, like hair. After the cotton fibre is gathered from the plant, it can be made into thread. The cotton thread can then be made into cloth. The cloth can be used to make clothes for people and many other things. Cotton clothing is very nice to wear, especially in hot weather, and is easy to move around in.
There are different types of cotton plants. Some cotton plants grow wild in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. This is how cotton was discovered many years ago. Most of the cotton gathered to make cloth comes from crops grown on cotton farms. Cotton farms can be found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas. All parts of cotton plants are useful.

Cotton is a natural fibre harvested from the cotton plant. Cotton is one of the oldest fibres with traces of cotton over 7,000 years old recovered from archaeological sites. Cotton is also one of the most used natural fibres in existence today, with people everywhere wearing and using cotton for various purposes. Millions of acres globally are used to produce cotton, whether it be new world cotton, with longer, smoother fibres, or the shorter and coarser old world varieties.

In our second Planet Money T-shirt podcast we hear the interesting story of a Brazilian cotton farmer called Pedro.

Planet Money is a joint project of National Public Radio (NPR) in the USA and This American Life, the Chicago weekly public radio show which focuses on coverage of the global economy.

Planet Money is making a very special t-shirt, unlike any other.  It’s a t-shirt that can tell you the story of its own creation.

Almost every single t-shirt out there is the result of a complicated global journey. We will follow NPR on that journey. We’ll research the people who grow the cotton, spin the yarn, and cut and sew the fabric. We have ordered a t-shirt and we will follow the cargo ships that bring our t-shirt from factories in Bangladesh and Colombia to ports in the USA and on to Ireland.  We’ll also examine the crazy tangle of international regulations which govern the t-shirt trade the whole way. Click the play button below to listen to our first t-shirt podcast.

It was Halloween night and
there was not one fight
that would ruin the night.

Then I saw a cat
and he sat on
a mat.
It really was a treat
to see a cat eating meat.

Then a bat came down
and with its feet
he picked me up
and there really was
no need.